On the occasion of her 125th birthday, Paulette Nardal is celebrated this Tuesday by Google with a doodle dedicated to the Martinican writer.

Born October 12, 1896 in Martinique, Paulette Nardal notably campaigned for the black cause with her sister Jeanne Nardal, indicates 

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The journalist and woman of letters is considered one of the founders of the literary and political movement of negritude.

Even if history has rather retained the names of Senegalese Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martiniquais Aimé Césaire and Guyanese Léon-Gontran Damas.

Having left her work as a teacher at the same time as her native island, Paulette Nardal arrived in Paris in the 1920s. While students, she and her sisters held a salon in Clamart, in their house.

Different artists, activists, intellectuals or politicians met there to discuss the black condition.

Paulette Nardal, forgotten theorist of Negritude (and 1st black woman to study at the Sorbonne 😌) #Martinique https://t.co/dVWqvS4efc

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A place in its name in Fort-de-France

In addition, Paulette Nardal was the first black woman to study at the Sorbonne. Author, columnist, she wrote several articles in "La Revue du monde noir" and produced translations, contributing to the emancipation of the current of negritude. The Martinican writer died on February 16, 1985. In the 1980s, Aimé Césaire, then mayor of Fort-de-France, had Paulette Nardal's name affixed to a town square. In Paris, it is in the 14th arrondissement that the capital pays tribute to the journalist and writer with the Jane-et-Paulette-Nardal promenade.

In recognition of her commitment and her work, Paulette Nardal was elected delegate to the United Nations in 1946. Thirty years later, she received the title of Knight of the Legion of Honor, specifies

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“I have often thought and said, about the beginnings of negritude, that we were only unhappy women, my sister and I, and that is why we were never mentioned.

It was minimized because it was women who talked about it, ”Paulette Nardal told her biographer, according to comments reported by 

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 in 2019. Google's doodle of the day is taken from a work produced by artist Jessica Coppet.

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